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Michelle Wright

The Danger of Origins: Migration and Time in the African and Black Diasporas

February 11, 2021

How to Win Humanities Grants

February 18, 2021

The Great Departure: Mass Migration and Freedom

Bans, Walls, Raids, Sanctuary: U.S. Immigration and Abolitionist Futures

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January 2020

23

The Mandalorian and the Public Humanities

February 2020

3

The Race Card: From Gaming Technologies to Model Minorities

12

What Does "Research" Mean For an Art Historian, and What Does the Shroud of Turin Have To Do With It?

12

Art and Activism: Looking Closer at Historical Documentary Photographs and Contemporary Imagery

12

American Cultures Seminar

12

We Shall Overcome: A Celebration of Martin Luther King

12

What does research mean for an art history? What does the Shroud of Turin have to do with it?

17

Russia and the West: Lecture by Yoshiko Herrera

24

Russia and Central Asia: Lecture by Eugene Huskey

25

The American Presidency and Thurgood Marshall: Lecture by Wil Haygood

26

And God Knows the Martyrs: Theodicy, Violence, and Asceticism in Jihadi-Salafism

26

"Training for Freedom: How Ordinary People in Unusual Time & Unlikely Place Made Extraordinary History" Documentary Premier

27

Diasporic Worldliness in Postcolonial Globalization

27

Anthropology Day Lecture: Why Anthropology Matters Now

28

Lessons in Drag: An Evening with LaWhore Vagistan

28

Racialized Animacy: Thinking Affective Injustice through Bergson

March 2020

1

Geoffrion Family Undergraduate Fellowship Application Deadline 2020

2

Russia and Ukraine: Lecture by Tim Model

2

Puff Lecture: Solving America's Hunger Crisis

3

The Inhumanities: Lecture by Kathryn Yusoff

3

Book Talk with Jason Rezaian

3

Discourses of Ukranian Nationhood Before and After 2014

3

Approaching Extinction, A Symposium: Day 1

4

“Approaching Extinction, Contesting Extinction” Symposium Day 2

4

Approaching Extinction, A Symposium: Day 2

4

Contesting Extinction: Toward a Praxis of Language Reclamation

4

5

We Can End Homelessness (But Not if We Keep Acting Like This)

5

Willeke Lecture: Climate Justice

6

Stunt-double Spanish: Using Puppets for Language Learning and Community Outreach

9

Russia and the Baltics: Lecture by Neringa Klumbyte

9

Dr. Michio Kaku: The Future of the Mind

9

Through the Agency of Words: 19th Century Women, Lunacy, and Literacy

10

Digital Storytelling Three Day Facilitator Training

10

What the L: Language Research at Miami

11

CANCELLED: Voices: Gentrification and Oral History

11

CANCELLED: Everyday Corruption in Russia: Lessons from the Soviet Past

12

POSTPONED: Race and Temporality: From Newtonian Blackness to Quantum Diasporic Spacetimes

12

POSTPONED: Coffee and Conversation with Michelle Wright

12

Digital Storytelling and Social Change

12

Women's Journeys, Women's Voices

12

CANCELLED: Abortion and Abandonment of Children in Soviet Lithuania, 1945-1989

12

The Power of Our Story

12

Starting a FYRE (Course): Introducing First-Year Students to Undergraduate Research (FYRE seminar series part 2 of 3)

13

CANCELLED: Race, Class, Gender, Sexuality Symposium: Day 1

13

CANCELLED: Book Reading and Discussion: Siberian Exile: Blood, War, and a Granddaughter’s Reckoning

14

Race, Class, Gender, Sexuality Symposium: Day 2

16

CANCELLED: 30 Years of Independence: A Discussion with Dalia Grybauskaitė, former President of Lithuania

17

CANCELLED: Robin James: The Sonic Episteme

18

CANCELLED: Leveraging the Research on Mindset to Improve Students' Learning

19

POSTPONED: Linda Singer Memorial Lecture: The Conspiracy Against Men

April 2020

1

CANCELLED: The Trans* Archive in Brazil: An Archeology of Activism, Creativity, and Transgression

2

POSTPONED: Enduring Time: On Waiting, Care, and Crisis

2

POSTPONED: Coffee and Conversation with Lisa Baraitser

6

POSTPONED: Digital Humanities Symposium

6

CANCELLED: Russia and Outer Space: Lecture by Andrew Jenks

6

CANCELLED: I Can Carry You: Destigmatizing Mental Health

6

CANCELLED: Women and Islam: Unity and Diversity in a Global Tradition

7

CANCELLED: Documentary Film and Q&A: Warsaw: A City Divided

9

CANCELLED: When Women Won the Right to Vote: A History Unfinished

10

CANCELLED: Kant on Friendship: A Colloquium Series Lecture

14

CANCELLED: Making Schools Safe for Students Who Wear Visible Religious Dress

15

CANCELLED: Lost and Found in the Archives

15

CANCELLED: Wickenden Lecture

16

CANCELLED: Stalking Time

17

CANCELLED: The Marianne D. McComb Conference in Creative Writing

20

CANCELLED: Russia and China: Lecture by Hilary Appel

27

CANCELLED: Russia and the Arctic: Lecture by Robert Orttung

29

CANCELLED: The Mystery of Voluntary Obligations

29

CANCELLED: American Cultures Seminar

30

CANCELLED: Short Term

May 2020

1

CANCELLED: Melting Time, Volatile Pasts, and Vaporous History

1

COVID Temporality: The 2019-2020 Geoffrion Family Fellows Symposium

7

CANCELLED: Rachel Levitsky Reading

August 2020

19

Crucial Conversations Session 1: What is the Movement for Black Lives?

24

Siberian Exile: A Conversation with author Julija Šukys

24

Western Program: Tea and Conversation

25

MUM Book Discussion

26

Thinking about History

31

Re-Imagining Russia: 20 Years of the Havighurst Center

31

Art and Architecture Lecture: Diverse City: How Equitable Design and Development Will Shape Urban Futures

31

Western Program: Tea and Conversation

31

Black Student Stories From Abroad

September 2020

2

Crucial Conversations #2 - What Does It Mean to Be Human?

3

myaamiaki aancihsaaciki: The Miami Tribe Removal - A Journey of Healing

8

Western Program: Tea and Conversation

9

The 1619 Project and Freedom on the Move

14

Art & Architecture Lecture: Interior Urbanism

15

Western Program: Tea and Conversation

16

Crucial Conversations #3: White Supremacy and Its Centripetal Force

16

The Allure of Light: A Panel Discussion (Chasing Light Exhibition)

16

Graphic History: A discussion with Jonathan Fetter-Vorm

17

The Path to Research in the Humanities 2020

22

Western Program: Tea and Conversation

22

The Deep Read: Margaret Atwood Live

23

National Park Talks Series: Mt. Rainier

24

America's Refugee Origins: 'Pilgrim' Migration and the Making of a National Myth

28

Art and Architecture Lecture: Designing Dissenting Histories

28

Beyond Europe: Student Stories from Abroad

29

Western Program: Tea and Conversation

29

Reading: Eric Goodman

30

Crucial Conversations #4: The Challenge of Anti-Blackness

October 2020

1

Federal Force, States’ Rights, and the National Good

2

Tell the World: Freedom is a Constant Struggle

5

Art and Architecture Lecture: Building Stories

7

Monuments and History

7

Why Are We Still Fighting Over the Civil War?

10

What Would Martin Do? The Experience of Black Men in America

10

CANCELLED: The reflection of time/ O reflexo do Tempo/ El reflejo del Tiempo

12

POSTPONED: Unfinished: stories on the end of the world- Podcast Launch Event

14

Postponed: "Mothers, Tell Your Daughters"

14

Crucial Conversations #5 - Revolution, Abolition, and Radical Hope

15

Hitler’s Refugees and the Hollywood Screen

15

Postponed: Discussion with Bonnie Jo Campbell

15

Freedom in Black and White: The Making of a Photographer-Activist [Virtual]

16

Gandhi's Challenge to America: Reflections on James Lawson's Philosophy of Non-Violence

16

Mushroom Walk with Dr. Nik Money

16

CHCI Event: The Public Humanities Tomorrow

17

Black Lives Matter: The Emergence of Sports in Dialogue for Racial Equality and Inclusion

19

Art and Architecture Lecture: Walking in the Footsteps of History: Digital Documentation and Visualization of the Civil Rights Movement

19

The Role of the Media in American Democracy

21

Writing about the Past

21

Finding Opportunities in a Global Workplace

21

Beyond the Day of the Dead: Jose Guadalupe Posada (1852-1913) as a Revolutionary Artist

26

Art and Architecture Lecture: Layered Experiences: Brand and Storytelling in Design

28

The Path to Research in the Humanities 2020

28

Crucial Conversations #6 - Too Much Schooling, Too Little Education

28

The Periodic Table: Primo Levi and the Dangers of Purity

29

The Legacies of Slavery in Global Perspective

November 2020

2

Art and Architecture Lecture: Do Not Try To Remember: Bruce Goff and the American School of Architecture

2

Miami University Digital Humanities Forum

4

The Scene of the Novel: Varieties of the Actual in Early Modern Prose Narratives

5

MU Digital Fringe Festival, Day 1

6

MU Digital Fringe Festival, Day 2

7

MU Digital Fringe Festival, Day 3

11

Works-in-Progress Talk: "Race Mixing"

11

Crucial Conversations #7: Love, Study, Struggle

11

Race, Politics, and Sports

12

MU Digital Fringe Festival, Day 4

13

MU Digital Fringe Festival, Day 5

14

MU Digital Fringe Festival, Day 6

18

Crucial Conversations #8 - Where Do We Go From Here?

December 2020

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